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| Searching... Subject: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Matches Found: 189 1914: 5. THE SOLDIER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: If I should die, think only this of me Last Line: In hearts at peace, under an english heaven. Variant Title(s): The Soldier Subject(s): Death; England; Environment; Fields; Flowers; Patriotism; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 14, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity this busy monster, manunkind Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A FARM PICTURE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn Last Line: And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away. Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A HAPPY LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: O what a life is this I lead Last Line: With such a life as this to lead? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Life; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A POISON TREE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I was angry with my friend Last Line: My foe outstretched beneath the tree. Subject(s): Anger; Bible; Enemies; Environment; Hate; Men; Mythology; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 2, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Last Line: To see the cherry hung with snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): Cherry Trees;loveliest Of Trees Subject(s): Aging; Carpe Diem; Cherries; Cherry Trees; Easter; Environment; Fruit; Holidays; Spring; Time; Trees; The Resurrection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A SONG OF THE SEASON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am a moth ball Last Line: But out! Subject(s): Animals;environment;insects;moths; Environmental Protection;ecology;conservation;bugs A SPARROW-HAWK IN THE SUBURBS, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At that time of year there is a turn in the road where Last Line: Last frosts of our / back gardens Subject(s): Environment; Hawks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A TREE TELLING OF ORPHEUS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White dawn. Stillness. When the rippling began Subject(s): Environment; Music & Musicians; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A VISION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we will have the wisdom to survive Last Line: Its hardship is its posibility Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A WOODCHUCK LESSON, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To reach the university, / you park your car on rapist hill Last Line: Who huddle near the fence, near the loading ramp. Subject(s): Environment; Teaching & Teachers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A.M., by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: ... And here the dark infinitive to feel Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation AD ASTRA: 32, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Tho' factory smoke and film of whirring loom Last Line: And nature's harness'd powers his will subserve. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Environment; Pollution; Smoke; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation AD ASTRA: 33, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Then cities shall arise, both sweet and fair Last Line: Health the handmaid of peace and child of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Cities; Environment; Health; Urban Life; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ADVICE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, you two eyes, that have all night been sleeping Last Line: Come into the meadows, where the lambs are leaping. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas ADVICE TO A PROPHET, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S AFTER IKKYU: 25, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Talked to the god of hosts about the native american Last Line: Half-human bears still dance in imperfect circles. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Environment; Native Americans; Prayer; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AIR, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the open window, a confusion Last Line: Is deeply inhaling, exhaling its doppelgänger breath. Subject(s): Air; Environment; Gasoline; Pollution; Sickness; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Illness ALL WINTER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In winter I remember Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AMPHION, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father left a park to me Last Line: A little garden blossom. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation AN ADDRESS TO WEYERHAEUSER, THE TREE-GROWING COMPANY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After miles of stumps and slash and the once-buried endeavors Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ANCESTOR OF THE HUNTING HEART; AFTER BREUGEL, by JOHN HAINES First Line: There is a distance in the heart Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ANOTHER COUNTRY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I visited with the porpoises Last Line: That harvest the tuna like wheat Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents BARE ALMOND TREES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wet almond-trees, in the rain Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Environment; Travel; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Journeys; Trips BEDROCK, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snowmelt pond -- warm granite Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BEGGAR'S LUCK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Where did you sleep in the country, lad? Last Line: And drove me away with stones.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Environment; Fields; Homeless; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BINSEY POPLARS (FELLED 1879), by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled Last Line: Sweet especial rural scene. Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Environment; Holidays; Nature; New Year; Poplar Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BIRCHES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When I see birches bend to left and right Last Line: One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. Subject(s): Birch Trees; Children; Environment; Trees; Winter; Youth; Childhood; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BLACK NIKES, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We need quarters like king tut needed a boat. A slave could row him to heaven from his crypt in Subject(s): Egypt; Environment; Shoes; Homecoming; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers BLESSING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed / are the injured animals Last Line: When no one is left to speak. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BRUEGHEL'S SNOW, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the snow Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BUFFALO DUSK, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The buffaloes are gone Subject(s): Buffaloes; Environment; Middle West; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States BY FRAZIER CREEK FALLS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Standing up on lifted, folded rock Subject(s): Environment; Waterfalls; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BY RAIL THROUGH THE EARTHLY PARADISE, PERHAPS BEDFORDSHIRE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poet's Biography First Line: The fishermen among the fireweed Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we reach the field Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women Writers; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CEREMONIES FOR CANDLEMASSE EVE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down with the rosemary and bayes Last Line: New things succeed, as former things grow old. Variant Title(s): Candlemas Eve Subject(s): Candlemas; Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation CONSERVATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While we're conserving coal and trees Last Line: And prudently conserve -- themselves. Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers preach to us if we will hear Last Line: To nourish one small seed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flowers; Lilies; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas COWSLIPS AND LARKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear it said yon land is poor Last Line: Are many a sunny mile from here. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas DAY BEGINS AT GOVERNOR'S SQUARE MALL, by LEON STOKESBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, newness is all. Or almost all. And like Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation DRAW, AND DRINKE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Milk still your fountains, and your springs, for why? Last Line: The more th'are drawn, the lesse they wil grow dry. Subject(s): Environment; Fountains; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation EROSION, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are slowly / underminded. Grain Subject(s): Environment; Change; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FENCE POSTS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It might be that horses would be useful Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FETCHING COWS, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The black one, last as usual, swings her head Subject(s): Cows; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIELD AND FOREST, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you look down from the airplane you see lines Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIFTY FAGGOTS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There they stand, on their ends, the fifty faggots Last Line: Foresee or more control than robin and wren. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Environment; Trees; World War I; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; First World War FIVE A.M. IN THE PINEWOODS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd seen / their hoofprints in the deep Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FOR A COMING EXTINCTION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray whale / now that we are sending you to the end Last Line: That it is we who are important Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Environment; Extinct Animals; Whales; Dead, The; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FOR INSTANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Often, it's nowhere special: maybe Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FOR THE CHILDREN, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rising hills, the slopes Subject(s): Children; Environment; Mothers; Childhood; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FRONT LINES, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The edge of the cancer Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation GEO-BESTIARY: 4, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some eco-ninny released Last Line: A clump, among others, of red-spotted snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation GEO-BESTIARY: 6, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O blm, blm, and nfs Last Line: Now mostly scar tissue? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation GIFTS OF RAIN, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cloudburst and steady downpour now for days Subject(s): Environment; Rain; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation GOD'S GRANDEUR, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is charged with the grandeur of god Last Line: World broods with warm breast and with ah! Bright wings. Subject(s): Christianity; Earth; Environment; Faith; God; Labor & Laborers; Men; Nature; Redemption; Religion; War; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Work; Workers; Theology GRASSHOPPERS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grasshoppers go in many a thrumming spring Last Line: He springs, that bends until they touch the ground. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HAIDA GWAI NORTH COAST, HAIKOON BEACH, HIELLEN RIVER RAVEN CROAKS, by GARY SNYDER Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve ravens squawk, squork, crork Last Line: Earth / loves to love Subject(s): Environment; Geology; Mythology; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation HARES AT PLAY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds are gone to bed, the cows are still Last Line: Sturts quick as fear, and seeks its hidden lair. Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Fields; Rabbits; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hares HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY, by HICOK. BOB Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Never before have I so resembled british petroleum Last Line: Or notional, now that oceans are wheezing to a stop? Subject(s): Oil & Gas Companies; Environment; Poetry & Poets; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation HERITAGE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother, the antique mirror Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indian HISTORY AS HORSE LIGHT, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It ended at the time of hiroshima. Everything Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be in england, now that april's there Last Line: Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower! Variant Title(s): April In England Subject(s): April; England; Environment; Fields; Homesickness; May (month); Nature; Spring; Travel; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips HORSES, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy here Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HUMPBACKS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is, all around us Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is so strange about a tree alone in an open field? Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Pheasants; Willow Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas I'M GLAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I'm glad the sky is painted blue Last Line: All sandwiched in between Subject(s): Air;earth;environment;nature;sky; World;environmental Protection;ecology;conservation IF THE OWL CALLS AGAIN, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text First Line: At dusk / from the island Last Line: Cold world awakens. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Environment; Owls; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IMAGINARY DRAWINGS OF THE SONG ANIMALS, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Treefrog winks without springing Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IN A BIRD SANCTUARY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because they could not give it too much ground Last Line: What's all about Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IN A WOOD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale beech and pine so blue [or, pine-tree blue] Last Line: Life-loyalties. Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods IN FLANDERS FIELDS, by JOHN MCCRAE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In flanders fields the poppies blow / between the crosses, row on row Last Line: In flanders fields. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flanders, Belgium; Freedom; Patriotism; Soldiers; World War I; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Liberty; First World War IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 2, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old yew, which graspest at the stones Last Line: And grow incorporate into thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Dead Friend;in Memoriam;in Memoriam (1);in Memoriam: 2 Subject(s): Environment; Mourning; Trees; Yew Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Bereavement IN SMOOTH WATER THE MOUNTAINS SUSPEND THEMSELVES, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where shallows and hillside Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IN SUMMER (2), by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night lies down / in the field when the moon Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN THE FIELDS, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when I look at lovely things which pass Last Line: Over the fields. They come in spring. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN THE FOREST WITHOUT LEAVES, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This earth written over with words Last Line: "one tree, one leaf, Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation INVERSNAID, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This darksome burn, horseback brown Last Line: Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. Subject(s): Brooks; Environment; Nature; Scotland; Wilderness; Streams; Creeks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ISLE OF MULL, SCOTLAND, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because by now we know everything is no green everywhere Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation JONES'S SELECTION, by G. H. GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You hear a lot of new-chum talk Last Line: The land don't get on yous. Alternate Author Name(s): Ironbark; Gibson, George Herbert Subject(s): Death; Environment; Punishment; Dead, The; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation LAMARCK ELABORATED, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The greeks were wrong who said our eyes have rays Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation LITTLE COSMIC DUST POEM, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the debris of dying stars Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation LOST ACRES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These acres, always again lost Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas MAPLE AND SUMACH, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maple and sumach down this autumn ride Last Line: Speak in me now for all who are to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Autumn; Environment; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation MIDSUMMER: 36, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oak inns creak in their joints as light declines Subject(s): Environment; Hotels; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MILTON BY FIRELIGHT, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold' Subject(s): Environment; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mines & Miners; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation MOTHS, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the air smells of cut grass Last Line: And my child's shadow longer than my own Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation MOWING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was never a sound beside the wood but one Last Line: My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Mowing & Mowers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Lawn Mowers MY MEADOW, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, it's still the loveliest meadow in all vermont Last Line: Maybe I have lived too long with the world Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plants; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Planting; Planters MYTHS AND TEXTS: LOGGING: 14, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The groves are down Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation NO-MAN'S WOOD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Shall I have jealous thoughts to nurse Last Line: Clean through the heart of no-man's wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray whales are going south: I see their fountains Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents ON A TREE FALLEN ACROSS THE ROAD (TO HEAR US TALK), by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Last Line: And steer it a direction straight through space. Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ONE USED TO BE ABLE TO SAY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Even pollute the people under his own roof Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents PERSEPHONE, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see as through a skylight in my brain Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation PERVERSITY, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Once it was sweet when darkness veiled the hills Last Line: Missing life's comforts, we would just be bored. Subject(s): Air; Environment; Night; Pollution; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Bedtime PIED BEAUTY, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Glory be to god for dappled things Last Line: Praise him. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Environment; Fields; God; Language; Men; Nature; Religion; Worship; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Words; Vocabulary; Theology PINE-TREES AND THE SKY: EVENING, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd watched the sorrow of the evening sky Last Line: Being glad of you, o pine-trees and the sky! Subject(s): Environment; Soldiers' Writings; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation PIPEFISH, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the green / and purple weeds Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation PLANTING TREES, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the mating of trees Last Line: And the sound of the wind in them Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation PLOUGHING THE ROUGHLANDS, by HELEN DUNMORE Poet's Biography First Line: It's not the four-wheeled drive crawler Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plowing & Plowmen; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PRAYER FOR THE GREAT FAMILY, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gratitude to mother earth, sailing through night and day Subject(s): Environment; Holidays; Prayer; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation QUESTION IN A FIELD, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pasture, stone wall, and steeple Last Line: Or the horrible beautiful kind? Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SAND-QUARRY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father and I drove to the sand-quarry across the wined marshlands Subject(s): Quarries; Fathers & Daughters; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SILENT SPRING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, the great sky! Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 97, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hurt no living thing Last Line: Nor harmless worms that creep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Environment; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SMOKEY THE BEAR SUTRA, by GARY SYNDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in the jurassic about 150 million years ago Subject(s): Buddhism; Pollution; Environment; Bears; United States; Buddha; Buddhists; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; America SOIL, by GEORGE SZIRTES Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What colour would you call that now? That brown Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SOME TREES, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are amazing: each Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SONG FOR THE DEER AND MYSELF TO RETURN ON, by JOY HARJO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning when I looked out the roof window Subject(s): Deer; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD, by OGDEN NASH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I think that I shall never see / a billboard lovely as a tree Subject(s): Billboards; Environment; Kilmer, Joyce (1886-1918); Nature; Travel; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Journeys; Trips SOUTH WIND, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where have you been, south wind, this may-day morning Last Line: When you stole to me shyly with scent of hawthorn. Subject(s): Environment; Soldiers' Writings; Trees; Wind; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation STOVEWOOD, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two thousand years of fog and sucking minerals Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SUICIDES, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ink blot, sperm on a slide, a squirm Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents THE ALMOND TREES, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing here / this early Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE ANDEAN FLUTE, by DEREK MAHON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He dances to that music in the wood Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE BLACK WALNUT TREE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother and I debate: / we could sell Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE BLACKBIRD, by DEREK MAHON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One morning in the month of june Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE BREATHING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An absolute / patience Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE BRIGHT FIELD, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the sun break through Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE CABBAGE FIELD, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Both taine and the inland english child Last Line: Anything but the sea? Subject(s): Cabbage; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE CHERRY TREE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poet's Biography First Line: In her gnarled sleep it Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Environment; Gays & Lesbians; Poetry & Poets; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE CHERRY TREES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cherry trees bend over and are Last Line: This early may morn when there is none to wed. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Environment; Trees; War; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE CHRISTMAS TREE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put out the lights now! Last Line: If it lives or dies now Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Environment; Nativity, The; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE COMBE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The combe was ever dark, ancient and dark Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR, by MARY WRIGHT PLUMMER Poem Text First Line: Another world we have, we that have made Last Line: Of thy first gift -- lord, art thou not afraid? Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Environment; Wellesley College; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE DELIGHT SONG OF TSOAI-TALEE, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I am a feather on the bright sky Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE EARTHWORM, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who really respects the earthworm Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Men; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE ELM, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place where dorothea smiled Last Line: This is the place where dorothea smiled Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Elm Trees; Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE END, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Not every man [or, everyone] knows what he shall sing at the end Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE FALLEN ELM, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old elm that murmured in our chimney top Last Line: & freedoms birthright from the weak devours Subject(s): Elm Trees; Environment; Freedom; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Liberty THE FISH, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I caught a tremendous fish Subject(s): Environment; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sports; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Anglers; Ocean THE FISH ARE ALL SICK, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fish are all sick, the great whales dead Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poetry of earth is never dead Last Line: The grasshopper's among some grassy hills. Variant Title(s): On The Grasshopper And Cricket Subject(s): Crickets; Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Insects; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs THE IDEA OF BALANCE IS TO BE FOUND IN HERONS AND LOONS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I just heard a loon call on a t.V. Ad Last Line: Within their breasts. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Solitude; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Loneliness THE LAST ONE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well they'd made up their minds to be everywhere because why not Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE LICORICE FIELDS AT PONTEFRACT, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the licorice fields at pontefract Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Love; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE NEW APARTMENT: MINNEAPOLIS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The floorboards creak Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Memory; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians THE NEW HIGHWAY, by EVA SMITH TURNER Poem Text First Line: A smooth, broad highway girds our town Last Line: Cast cold, dark shadows on my heart. Subject(s): Environment; Roads; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Paths; Trails THE OLD ELM TREE BY THE RIVER, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shrugging in the flight of its leaves Last Line: A mighty blessing we cannot bear for long Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE OLD OAK TREE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: I sit beneath your leaves, old oak Last Line: The stars turn over leaves of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Oak Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE ORIGINS OF CORN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the female corn. / this is the male Last Line: Will find it green and alive. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Love; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE POPLAR FIELD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade Last Line: Have a being less durable even than he. Subject(s): Aging; Environment; Fields; Poplar Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE PURSE-SEINE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight ... Last Line: That cultures decay, and life's end is death Subject(s): Environment; Fish & Fishing; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Anglers THE REASSURER, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A people in the throes of national prosperity, who Last Line: Has been wakened in the night by a dream of the calamity of peace Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE SCARECROW, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poet's Biography First Line: He strides across the grassy corn Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Scarecrows; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SEALS IN PENOBSCOT BAY, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hadn't heard of the atom bomb Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents THE SKYLARK, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rolls and harrows lie at rest beside Last Line: Lies safely, with the leveret, in the corn. Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Environment; Fields; Larks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks THE STONES, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One night in my room Last Line: Among the excellent vegetables. Subject(s): Environment; Happiness; Nature; Self; Stones; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Joy; Delight; Granite; Rocks THE SUN USED TO SHINE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun used to shine while we two walked Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Herefordshire, England; Poetry & Poets; Walking; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE TABLES TURNED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up! Up! My friend, and clear your looks Last Line: That watches and receives. Subject(s): Country Life; Environment; Nature; Religion; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Theology THE THORN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a thorn; it looks so old Last Line: "oh woe is me! Oh misery!'" Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE TREE, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood still and was a tree amid the wood Last Line: That was rank folly to my head before. Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE TREES, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The trees are coming into leaf Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE TRUTH IS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my left pocket a chickasaw hand Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Women; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; THE UNGRATEFUL GARDEN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Midas watched the golden crust Last Line: "nature is evil,"" midas said." Subject(s): Environment; Gold; Midas; Women; Women's Rights; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Feminism THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They shut the road through the woods Last Line: But there is no road through the woods. Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Roads; Time; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods; Paths; Trails THE WELLFLEET WHALE, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You have your language too Subject(s): Environment; Whales; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enter these enchanted woods Last Line: You who dare. Subject(s): Courage; Environment; Forests; Magic; Mythology; Trees; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods THE WORDS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind, bird, and tree Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE WORLD, by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Environment; Children; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Childhood THIS MOMENT, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A neighbourhood / at dusk Last Line: Apples sweeten in the dark Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THOSE WHO WANT OUT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In their homes, much glass and steel. Their cars Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Environment; Exiles; Nature; Estrangement; Outcasts; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THREE KINDS OF PLEASURES, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, riding in a car, in wisconsin Last Line: And the ditches along the road half full of a private snow Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TIDE TURNING, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through salt marsh, grassy channel where the shark's Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Seashore; Tides; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents; Beach; Coast; Shore TIMESWEEP, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in the morning of the world Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation TO A FAT LADY SEEN FROM THE TRAIN, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O why do you walk through the fields in gloves Last Line: Missing so much and so much? Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Obesity; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO A MOUSE, ON TURNING HER UP IN HER NEST WITH THE PLOUGH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie Last Line: I guess an' fear. Variant Title(s): To A Field-mouse Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Mice; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO IRON-FOUNDERS AND OTHERS, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you destroy a blade of grass Last Line: Chisels men's hands to magnify. Subject(s): Environment; Industrial Revolution; Labor & Laborers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Work; Workers TO THE DEFILERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, thieves, and take your riches, creep Last Line: And cast your spittle in god's face. Subject(s): Earth; Environment; Prostitution; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. IN A MANUFACTURING TOWN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked restless and despondent through the gloomy city Last Line: Little child. Subject(s): Capitalism; Democracy; Depressions, Economic; Environment; Factories; Labor & Laborers; Poverty; Smoke; Recessions; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Work; Workers TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. SUNDAY MORNING NEAR A MANUFACTURING TOWN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday, a still autumn morning, and all the roads on the outskirts Last Line: Overlie you much longer. Subject(s): Environment; Factories; Smoke; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Traveling through the dark I found a deer Subject(s): Deer; Environment; Humanity; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation TREE SONG, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between dirt dark and giddy sky Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation TREES, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree Last Line: But only god can make a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Environment; Faith; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Religion; Soldiers; Travel; Trees; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Theology; Journeys; Trips; First World War TREES BE COMPANY, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When zummer's burnen het's a-shed Last Line: The trees would still be company. Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Pleasure; Seasons; Solitude; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Loneliness UNDER THE OAK, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, if you were sensible Last Line: What place have you in my histories? Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation UPPER LAMBOURNE, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the ash tree climbs the ivy Subject(s): England; Environment; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation VERSES ON THE DESTRUCTION OF DRUMLANRIG WOODS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As on the banks o' wandering nith Last Line: "that reptile wears a ducal crown." Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods VIOLET AND OAK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Down through the trees is my green walk Last Line: A little violet in the grass.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Flowers; Trees; Violets; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation VIRGIN IN A TREE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How this tart fable instructs Last Line: Till irony's bough break Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation WALNUT ST., OAK ST., SYCAMORE ST., ETC, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So this is what happened Last Line: Where they had gone Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation WATERCOLOR OF GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There, spring lambs jam the sheepfold. In air Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cambridge, England; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WIND AND TREE, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the way that the most of the wind Subject(s): Environment; Love - Erotic; Love; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation WINTER, by SHEILA WINGFIELD Poem Text First Line: The tree still bends over the lake Subject(s): Environment; Love; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation WINTER TREES, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation WOODS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I part the out thrusting branches Last Line: There is flight around me Subject(s): Blessings; Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation WORDS FOR SOME ASH, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor parched man, we had to squeeze Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation YARDLEY OAK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Survivor sole, and hardly such, of all Last Line: Eventful, should supply her with a theme. Subject(s): Environment; Oak Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation YOU LINGERING SPARSE LEAVES OF ME, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You lingering sparse leaves of me on winter-nearing boughs Last Line: The faithfulest -- hardiest -- last. Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation |
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